More U.S. children were hospitalized for COVID during omicron; most were unvaccinated--CDC survey .

More children were hospitalized for COVID during omicron, CDC study finds. Most were unvaccinated. The CDC report found 30% of the hospitalized kids had no underlying medical conditions, and 19% were admitted to the intensive care unit. YahooNews

Children may be less likely than adults to be hospitalized with COVID-19, but a recent study found those who are still unvaccinated are suffering the worst consequences of the disease compared with their vaccinated peers.

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at hospitalizations in 14 states among children aged 5 to 11 throughout the pandemic.

They found COVID-19-related hospitalization rates were about twice as high among unvaccinated children as those who were vaccinated during the omicron wave from December to February, according to the report published last week in the agency’s Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report.

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